At 12:35 19.09.01 -0700, you wrote:
> > I have created such things, I call them "mounting holes". Its a part with
> > seven pads, a large in the centre and six around it. They numbered from 1
> > to 7. Then I have a associated schematic symbol with seven overlapping
>pins
> > (all at the same location).
> > Voila, just place as many parts on the schematic as you need, and the
> > mounting holes will show up on the pcb and there are no drc problems at
>all.
> >
> > Edi
>
>Edi,
> That is what I originally did when I first started but I had a problem
>with that. When I go to route my board it connects the smaller via's to the
>larger hole but after 4 of the 6 smaller ones have connected it won't
>connect any more of them. If I go in and use interactive routing I can see
>this first hand because when I go to connect the 5th smaller one to the
>center hole it will remove a trace from one of the others to allow only 4
>connected to the center hole at one time.
Do you have the "Automatically remove loops" switched on
(Tools|Preferences|Option Tap)?
> The other strange thing that happens then is that the screw hole with
>the 4 smaller pads connected to the larger one won't connect to anything
>external to itself, like the other screw hole next to it. Have you
>experienced similar problems?
No, But my smaller holes aren't vias, but pads, and this pads are located
within the annular ring of the centre hole. I don't have to connect all the
pads with tracks.
I still thinking of the reason, why you can connect four, but not more vias
to you centre pad. No ides till now.
Edi
>Afshin Salehi
>DPS Telecom
>
>p.s. Thank you all for the responses I have received to this E-mail.
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